The Green Mile: Coffey's Hands (Green Mile Series)

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Summary: Another quicky...
Review: I've enjoyed the way this story is in part's. It has helped in me getting throught it much faster than I normally would. The fact the storie is VERY good help's too!!!! I would recommend this serie's to reader's of any age.

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Summary: Powerful story in a now-unnecessary serial format
Review: This is King at his best in a serial novel dealing with such light subjects as life and death, love and hate. In the form of nursing home memoirs, King spins a gripping yarn about a crew of death row inmates and their keepers.

We meet a gentle miracle-working African-American giant sentenced to die for the rape and murder of two young girls. We see one of the normally hated murderers on "The Green Mile" (as Death Row at Cold Mountain prison is affectionately known) in a sympathetic light and when his gruesome death is portrayed in Part 4, we cannot help but hate his "righteous" executioners. We see hardened working men (whose jobs involve state sanctioned killing) in the Depression become transformed as if King intended this story to be a modern day Gospel narrative with Coffey in the role as the Christ.

Overall this is a powerful, disturbing story which tackles such weighty issues as racism, the death penalty, justice, grace, love and even old age with style and penache.

The serial format, which would have been extremely effective with the months long waiting period between installments, is now simply a way to squeeze a little more cash out of the reader. Read the story, but buy the complete novel.

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Summary: Keeping it interesting!
Review: Well, now that I am through 3/6 of the Green Mile Books, I think it is safe to say that this novel is SK's best. I read The Running Man, a book which I thought could have been better, Thinner (could have been WAY better), Storm of the Century (No complaints there), and I am 3/4 the way through The Stand (So far the nearest competitor to The Green Mile besides Storm of the Century). Out of all those books, I think that The Green Mile is 100x better. The Green Mile, instead of being just the average SK Good vs. Evil story, is a story that forces you to keep in mind who the bad guys are ( I often found myself rooting for Delacrioux). I used to be a great supporter of the Death Penalty, but after reading the first 3 books of The Green Mile, I don't think I could ever support it again. One thing is for sure, I hope Percy gets what's coming to him!